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Heath2000
BibType ARTICLE
Key Heath2000
Author(s) Christian Heath, Jon Hindmarsh
Title Configuring action in objects: from mutual spaces to media spaces
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Tag(s) EMCA, Objects, Action
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Year 2000
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Journal Mind, Culture, and Activity
Volume 7
Number 1-2
Pages 81–104
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DOI 10.1080/10749039.2000.9677649
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Abstract

It has long been recognized that the material environment is an essential feature of the organization of social action and interaction. It is only recently, however, that we have witnessed a burgeoning body of empirical studies, from within both the social and cognitive sciences, that has begun to delineate the ways in which objects are socially constructed and feature in social relations and activities. Despite this growing interest in the object in social life, there remains a paucity of research concerned with how objects are reflexively constituted in and through social interaction. In this article, we consider how aspects of the material environment are rendered momentarily intelligible in and through interaction and the ways in which objects provide a resource for the recognition of the actions and activities of others. We examine interaction in both conventional working environments and new experimental spaces created through advanced telecommunication and communication technologies to reveal the ways in which the sense and significance of social actions and activities are embedded in, and inseparable from, the local ecology.

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